A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of Caladium seguinum (Arum-seg., L).
General Action
Very marked on whole mucous membrane, especially of alimentary canal, and on skin.
Compare Arum (species), Sulphur, Rhus-t., Graphites, Hepar-s., etc.
Generalities
Nervous trembling. Purring feeling along aorta as low as abdomen. Discomfort in evening after eating pickled fish, (>) walking, (<) by driving, with distention of abdomen. Restlessness in forenoon, inclination for nothing, afterwards very busy and forgetful. Dread of motion, with necessity to lie all the time, though there is strength enough when he makes an effort. Necessity to lie down and close the eyes, when it seems as if he were rocked. Weariness. Faintness after writing, when reflecting; lying and on rising. Aggravation from 3 to 4 P.M. till midnight. Amelioration from a short sleep during the day; A from sweat; motion and open air.
Mind
Delirium. Excitement. Cries about a vexation, with inconsiderate prattlings. Apprehension before sleep; A. about his health and everything, after fever. Fear of cutting himself while shaving. Anger. Ill humor; and despondency; when his appetite is hardly satisfied at breakfast, with discomfort, confusion of head and sleepiness. Wants something, but does not know what. Forgetfulness of what he has done during the day. Confusion, inability to concentrate mind. Occasional tendency to stupor, from which he would arouse, cry, talk incoherently and perhaps drop into stupor again.
Head
Drawing tearing, extending to head. Aching; after midday sleep or after lying on side, (>) when sitting; with nausea; throbbing; tensive; bursting, (<) in forehead. Feeling as of too much blood. Confusion, with whirlings. Vertigo in morning, with nausea and with stitches in pit of stomach; V. after running; on rising. Forehead, vessels prominent; boring; aching, also in eyes; tension as from a plaster; Dullness in sinciput, with heaviness. Temple, stitches in r., (<) in r. eye; stitches in l., (>) by pressure, with boring; cutting. Pain in temples; from r. to occiput; throbbing; stupefying, in r. on waking. Numbness of r. side. Drawing in occiput. Pimples sensitive to touch, on hairy scalp behind ear. Stitches in skin of sinciput. Itching.
Eyes
Red; and watery. Stitches in l. Sensation of sand. Sensation of a hair. Pain on looking at distant objects; stupefying P. when smoking tobacco, and in forehead, wit heat in face and restlessness, then hawking of mucus, slimy vomiting and urging to stool. Burning. Hot lachrymation. Sclerotica yellow. Balls, stitches; aching; aching posteriorly; sore to touch. Lids red and inflamed (Rhus-t), eyes smarting and burning (Apis., Sulphur); styes on lower (Graphites). Bright spots before eye, and flickering.
Ears
Sticking in middle. Pain during fever; shock of P. in r. Throbbing in r., with sensation as if warm water flowed about it in a circle. Tickling in r. evenings, with itching. Sensation of something before them, even in a deaf person. Sensitive to noise, especially if he wishes to sleep; S. to the folding of paper, which wakes him when going to sleep. Twittering. Roaring. “Tic- tac” sounds in r. like two drops of water falling.
Nose
Painful pimples in r. nostril, on septum. Smarting from the air. Sudden burning in upper part in evening, then irritation to sneeze, short sneezing, then fluent coryza. Stoppage. Dry, as if lined with white of egg. Fluent coryza. Discharge of scanty yellow, glairy mucus.
Face
Scarlet. Pale, sickly, with black rings around eyes. Biting burning stitches in cheek. Chapped feeling. Lips swollen; dry and scaly; sore (Arum-t.); under sore and swollen; smarting to upper.
Mouth
Toothache; mornings and evenings; as if elongated; boring, with stitches in ears; drawing downward through l. molars. Teeth seem too long after vomiting, with insipid, herbaceous taste on tongue and scratching in throat. Tongue white; dark purple; dark brown streak down centre (Baptisia); yellowish red on edges, dirty yellow a base; cracked, yellow down centre (Baptisia); “strawberry”; swollen, feels too large for mouth; rough; sore on margin; pricking in tip; tip feels burnt; feels greasy; tender, feels raw. Articulation difficult, as if mouth were full of mush.
Mucous membrane red, curtains of palate very red, uvula swollen. Inflammation of mucous membrane of M. and fauces, with salivation, choking sensation and desire to swallow, which was difficult. Slime. Burning and fauces. Sensation as if burnt with creosote. Dryness. Sticky and herby. Saliva sticky; streaked with blood as it poured from mouth. Taste slimy; bitter; sweet; metallic; or petroleum; foul; sour to milk, which was repugnant.
Throat
Hawking of yellow mucus from posterior nares. Inflammation, with pain on swallowing. Pricking in r. side. Pain in soft palate on swallowing. Scratching with dry sensation and hawking of mucus (Arum-t). Dryness, not in mouth, without thirst, with aversion to cold water; D., with irritation and roughness; of posterior nares, with rawness and roughness; of fauces and base of tongue, with stiffness. Tickling, with cough. “Wanted to shut up, ” with stitches towards ears and with burning and pain in stomach.
Stomach
Hunger; in evening, but he eats nothing, then nausea in morning while half asleep, like faintness, as if he had overeaten and must vomit, (>) when fully awake; desire for sour things, pickles. Appetite lost; he eats only because the stomach is hollow, without hunger, but hastily, and is immediately satisfied. Great desire to smoke and uncommon relish for it. Thirst; waking him at night, with dryness of lips. Longing for beer without decided thirst, with inability to drink water. Drinks nothing all day.
Eructations of air; as if stomach were full of dry food; acid E; incomplete, because hindered by burning pressure in abdomen. Hiccough. Nausea; on rising; when smoking his accustomed tobacco and afterwards; with confusion of head; sudden, when smoking a cigar, with urging to stool, but necessity to strain to get rid of a pappy yellow stool.
Swollen and tender to touch. Stitches in pit, (<) by sitting, causing weakness and nausea, with retraction of pit at every stitch; S. deep in pit. Cuttings in pit and in l. flank, preventing sleep after midnight; C. across pit as with glass. Pressure and gnawing; P. in pit, impeding respiration and causing cough. Deep-seated pain in pit on pressure. Burning pain, with frequent ineffectual retching (Ars). Burning; all the evening after tea and chocolate; and in upper abdomen, becoming a pressure that extends under breast, and then gnawing in orifice of stomach, which prevents deep breathing and eructations. Heaviness in pit, preventing cough. Fluttering as of a bird, from morning till afternoon, causing nausea. Throbbing in pit, tiring him, after walking. Dryness after eating, different from thirst. Weak, gone feeling.
Clinical Inflammation of stomach, with fluttering as of a bird, tolerates only warm drinks, stomach feels full of dry food, with acrid vomiting.
Abdomen
Distention, hardness and pain on pressure; D. and in tolerate of weight of clothes. Fetid flatus. Cramps, could not walk nor sit straight. Sudden twisting pain in evening. If the burning extends into A. it leaves a pressure. Pain on touch, (<) in region of bladder. Drawing in forenoon after a sour plum, then nausea from smoking a few whiffs of a cigar, then corrosive acid vomiting, with mucus and part of some cocoa, then hunger. Throbbing after internal heat, with prostration; T. (<) on r. side above umbilicus.
Stitches in region of spleen, with jerkings and pressure. Pain in region of liver. Soreness under margins of r. ribs after much writing. Pulsation in upper A. Spasmodic cutting at umbilicus, with necessity to bend himself double. Boring about umbilicus. Pain in hypogastrium, (>) by emission of flatus; paroxysm of sharp P. in l. H. when lying. Sensation as if a long worm were writhing in region of transverse colon or transverse duodenum.
Rectum and Anus
Stitches in R.; after stool; as with knives. Urging in morning on rising; mornings, noisy flatus, then straining to eject a pappy stool; frequent desire for a pasty yellow stool. Burning in A. after stool (Sulph). Discharge of thin red blood after stool; D. of mucus after stool, then of fluid.
Stool
Frequent, watery, then thicker. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus. Soft, large, yellow; soft, yellow, frequent; S. sour, offensive, yellowish-brown; S. then passage of flatus, later moving about and burning in abdomen, then haemorrhoidal symptoms after a second stool and passage of blood. Scanty, pasty. Mushy, dark. Lumpy. Constipation. Nearly white. Clay- colored, difficult (Hepar s). Omitted, with feeling of diarrhoea in evening.
Urinary Organs
Region of bladder painful to touch, bladder seems full, without desire to urinate, then moderate micturition. Spasmodic drawing at side of bladder towards penis, or deep behind or near bladder. Stitches in urethra in evening. Burning in urethra. Urine pale; high-colored, smells strong, turbid, pinkish, with pellicle; gelatinous precipitate.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.